VEDIC IDEAS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE & MULTIVERSES.
A friend wanted to know whether multiverses are possible? My reply is multiverse is possible, but not exactly how modern scientists imagine it. This is how it has been described in ancient Indian texts.
If our universe has started from a big bang, around empty space, that implies a background structure for our universe. Then there is no reason to believe that we are unique. There can be infinite universes unknown and not connected to us. A universe is characterized by its collective motion. Motion can be of three types:
1) Motion of the body and not parts, like when we travel in a car. The car with us is moving, but we are not moving (अवयवगति).
2) Motion of the parts, but not the body, like static bicycle (अवयवीगति).
3) Motion of both, like a potter’s wheel. Both the wheel and the pot are moving (उभयगति).
The universe (ब्रह्माण्ड) behaves like a potter’s wheel (कुलालचक्र). Everything in it is ever spinning (तीरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिरेषाम्). Hence, for an observer and any one point on it, the other parts appear to be moving away at times (अतिचार) only to come near (वक्र) at other times. One example is our solar system. The planets appear to move away and come near at different times. Thus, the universe is not expanding, but spinning on its axes against a static background. The concept of dark energy is nonsense. Since the universe is spinning at one point, the intervals between two universes cannot have the characteristic of the universe – motion. Thus, the interval will be motionless and travelling from one universe to another is impossible – whether through the hypothetical white hole or otherwise.
Since all astral bodies and their orbits are spherical with a moving center that gives the orbits its elliptical shape, it is reasonable to presume that the universe is spherical. Further, action has an opposite reaction in all directions. If big bang (it is really the big bounce) spread in all directions (अधः स्विदासी३दुपरि स्विदासी३त्), structure formation would have been impossible without a static background. The difference between positive and the negative charge is its direction of motion. Positive charge moves from the center (nucleus or point of maximum density) towards periphery (point of least or less density). Negative charge is spread everywhere (स्त्रियः सतीस्ताँ उ मे पुंस आहुः), which tries to confine the positive charge. The limits of these interactions are the various orbits. From electrons to planets to stars in the galaxy follow this rule. The irregular shape of galactic clusters is like the irregular shape of our bodies, which are not spherical.
The above explanation shows that the expansion of the universe is arrested at some point (नैमिषारण्यम् – निमिषान्तरमात्रेण यत्र धर्मचक्रस्य नेमिः शीर्ष्णेत). The simple explanation is the bow-shock effect. A boat moving in static water will lose speed and would come to halt due to the resistance of the background. A similar thing happens to the universe. After initial expansion, it comes to a halt cutting off a big volume, which we call our universe. After that, the backlash starts reversing the direction of flow leading to reconnection. Often we see this in the magnetosphere and this is the reason why the asteroid belt was formed beyond the terrestrial planets. Similarly, structure formation started only due to reconnection. Outside the big bang radius there is endless pure space. Hence time stands still there. Since every process ends up with a reverse process, entropy would lead to negative entropy and the universe will disintegrate in the reverse process – first heating up and then dissolve into the background to spring up again. Because ex-nihilo is impossible. The universe must have some inherent instability () to start the big bang.
Light (रूपम्) is nothing but the motion through a static background. Look at a pond and then throw up some water. The thrown water shines (अभास्वर रूपम्) differently. In the space, which is dark, the motion generates more shine (भास्वर रूपम्). That is light, which, when reflected from various objects coming in its path, appears as different forms (रूपंरूपं प्रतिरूपो बभूव तदस्य रूपं प्रतिचक्षणाय). Because this moving out and returning back (उन्मेष-सङ्कोच or स्पन्द) is continuing repeatedly, the speed of light is reducing over the years, because the initial velocity is getting retarded (निशीर्ष्ण) due to increased resistance of the background. The low constant temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (अम्भः) is proof of this static background. Temperature is related to motion. Low temperature indicates faint motion. Outside the boundary of the universe, the motion would be nil, because Voyager 1 has shown that outside the solar system, the density of the interstellar medium is sparse. Something similar should happen to outside the universe, which will bring the motion to zero (प्राणशून्य).
Some say; the matter and light could be spread up to 13.8 (other sources 96) billions light years away. And the space within this radius is always full of matter, electromagnetic waves, force fields (electromagnetic and gravity) connections between all the matter. But wherefrom they came? What is a singularity? If everything was compressed inside one point, wherefrom all that mass and energy came? By which mechanism they got compressed? What triggered the big bang? If space is expanding, it is expanding into what? Why the expansion of the universe is not visible at local scales and is perceptible only in the scale of galactic clusters? How do we see blue-shift and galactic mergers? All these questions can only be answered by the Vedas and other ancient Indian texts, as described above.
साभार: Basudeba Mishra, https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212687589724887&id=1240438026
